Main deeds

250 or 249: Death of her father, Magas; queen Apame agrees to a marriage between Berenice and Demetrius the Fair, who is made king of Cyrene

Demetrius the Fair is assassinated; Cyrene recovered for the Ptolemaic empire

Berenice can marry her fiancé

Berenice II
January 246: Accession of king Ptolemy III Euergetes

Summer 246: Outbreak of the Laodicean War; king Ptolemy in Syria and Babylonia. Berenice sacrices her locks, which are believed to have become a new constellation (the subject of a poem by Callimachus)